Dimensional Depot Downloader not getting items
So due to insane lag, we've had to refactor our factories to use dimensional up/downloaders.
It's been working super well -> It has reduced the lagg substantionally and we can finally enjoy the game in multiplayer. One issue I've noticed tho, is with empty containers.
As you can imagine, the throughput is insane there; but that should be fine. Sadly it appears that not all downloaders are getting their "fair" share of the empty containers: My newly built water packager gets none at all! I rechecked everything, reset the item, but it gets nothing.
So, I thought maybe we don't have enough empty containers in the system?
Well I just spent an hour uploading close to 100k empty canisters, but sadly nothing happens. It still does not get anything.
Now I suspect that there might be some priority issues with them: I don't know the logic to fetching items and downloading them, but I would assume that this is somehow making it so that my water packager are close to last in line and therefor dont get anything...
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I just realized that the downloader also has "Keep on DD" and "Minimum Buffer" settings. I can imagine what minimum buffer is: "try to download atleast 1 stack of item", hence if there is less it wont be able to get anything
but what does "Keep on DD" mean?